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| Megarhyssa ovipositors, in addition to being used to deposit eggs on the crew of the ships they capture, can also be used as stingers, injecting venom into the target. They can control the composition of their venom, and concoct several different vena at will, all of which are fiendishly complex, littered with //polydnavira// endogenous to the individual megarhyssa, and ever evolving to avert the development of natural antivena; megarhyssae will often deploy aphrodisiac formulae when courting others. Megarhyssa venom can be incredibly potent, with a single bubble's worth of some formulae being able to incapacitate a dragon. | Megarhyssa ovipositors, in addition to being used to deposit eggs on the crew of the ships they capture, can also be used as stingers, injecting venom into the target. They can control the composition of their venom, and concoct several different vena at will, all of which are fiendishly complex, littered with //polydnavira// (a family of insect vira integrated into wasp genomes) endogenous to the individual megarhyssa, and ever evolving to avert the development of natural antivena; megarhyssae will often deploy aphrodisiac formulae when courting others. Megarhyssa venom can be incredibly potent, with a single bubble's worth of some formulae being able to incapacitate a dragon. |
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| When deploying venom, megarhyssae produce orders of magnitude more of it than the relevant glands can hold, requiring them to use their bubble as a holding chamber, whereupon it inflates into a sphere instead of a flat circle; this often requires them to discard unused venom by “spraying” it out of their ovipositors. | When deploying venom, megarhyssae produce orders of magnitude more of it than the relevant glands can hold, requiring them to use their bubble as a holding chamber, whereupon it inflates into a sphere instead of a flat circle; this often requires them to discard unused venom by “spraying” it out of their ovipositors. |
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